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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ARNOLD PAHLOWV, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROCKING-CHAIR AND CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,773, dated May 21,1889.

Application filed August 1, 1888. Serial No. 281,615. (No model.)

and Rocking-Chair, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecificaticn and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a convertible chair, carriage, androcking-chair; and it consists of two hinged bodies adapted, whenopened, to

form a carriage-body, and when closed a chair, and provision is made forforming a rockingchair, as will be hereinafter described andspecifically claimed.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a device embodying myinvention forming a rocking-chair. Fig. 2 represents a perspective viewthereof, the same forming a carriagebody. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 representdetail views on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

Referring to the drawings,A and A designate two chairs-bodies, which arehinged together on the adjacent faces of their bases or bottom portionsor open ends, as shown in Fig. 1, in such manner that they may beextended and form horizontal continuations of each other and constitutethe body of a carriage, as seen in Fig. 2, the sides and backs of thetwo bodies forming the sides andends of the carriage-body, which lattermay be fastened to suitable running gear by bolts or other meansconnected with the floor or other portion of the same.

When the bodysection A is inverted and the bodyAturned on said sectionA, as seen in Fig. 1, a chair is produced, the legs of which arecomposed of the sides and back of the body A.

In order to convert the chair into a rockingchair, the legs of the bodyA are formed with spherical or other proper-shaped heads G, having necksG, which enter sockets H in the rockers, the same being open at top toallow the insertion of said heads and necks. Blocks J are hinged to therockers in such manner as to enter the sockets H and close the same,preventing displacement of the heads G, whereby the legs and rockers aresecurely connected.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described convertible chair and carriage-body, consistingof two bod y-sections hinged together, one of said body-sections havingcorner posts or uprights provided with heads, rockers having sockets toreceive said heads, and caps or blocks for closing the sockets at theforward ends of the rockers to secure the heads in the said sockers,substantially as described.

2. III a convertible chair and-carriage-hgdy, the combination of the twobody sections hinged together, one of said sections having corner postsor uprights provided with heads, of rockers having sockets to receivesaid heads, and caps or blocks hinged in the rockers at the forward endsof the sockets for securing the heads in place and permitting theremoval thereof, substantially as described.

ARNOLD PAIILOIV. WVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, AI. JENNINGS.

